Are You There God?

Five Ways to Prove God Exists

by St. Thomas Aquinas

1. MOTION: Everyone can see that motion exists in the world; your eyes are moving across these words rights now. Everything that moves is caused to move by something or someone else, your living room furniture isn't going to just rearrange itself.
If everything that moves has to be moved by something outside of itself, there has to be a "first move" that caused motion to exist for the very first time, or else we just have to keep going back in time to infinity, which is impossible.
This first move is what we call God.

2. CAUSE & EFFECT: Everything that exists was caused to exist; fire causes heat, rain causes crops to grow, your parents caused you! If a lump of clay is sitting on the table in front of you, it's not going to shape itself into a vase. That's impossible, and unless you form the clay yourself it's just going to sit there.
So since everything that is created needs and cause, there must be a first, ultimate cause, which we call God.

3. EXISTENCE: Our third way is the argument from existence. The computer or smartphone you are using to read this article did not exist at some point in the past, it had to be put together and created. The same is true with creation! It exists now, but at some point it had to come into existence, which every scientist in the world would admit.
And since "nothing" can't be called "something" there must be something that exists by its own power that makes everything else to exist... and that would be God.

4. PROGRESSION: There are things that are good, better and best. However, we can only say that things are better and best if we know that there is something out there that has to be the maximum of all these things - fire is the maximum of heat and makes everything else hot.
God is the cause of all other things, and He is the maximum of all that can be.

5. DESIGN: An acorn will always grow into an oak tree and the sun will always cause plants to grow as long as there is water and oxygen. The world has order and our universe obeys certain laws, St. Thomas uses the example of an arrow that is fired by an archer.
The arrow will only fly through the air and hit the target if it is directed by an archer, and what directs our universe to act the way it does with knowledge and intelligence, we call God.